VMware teams up with Pivotal, Google Cloud on new container service

special feature The Cloud v. Data Center Decision While companies used to have to justify everything they wanted to migrate to the cloud, that scenario has flipped in recent years. Here’s how to make the best decisions about cloud computing. Read More On the second day of VMworld, VMware is announcing it’s partnering with Pivotal and Google on a new service that enables enterprise customers to quickly deploy enterprise-grade Kubernetes on premise with vSphere. The new service, called Pivotal Container Service (PKS), allows for simple network and security provisioning with VMware NSX. It also offers constant compatibility with Google Container Engine (GKE). Read also: VMware expands multi-cloud offerings, adds new intent-based security product PKS is a commercial release of the open source Project Kubo, a collaborative, joint engineering effort between Google and Pivotal that delivers a BOSH-managed Kubernetes environment. With PKS, customers get all of the software-defined infrastructure as code from VMware and the automation and orchestration from Pivotal’s BOSH, with Kubernetes layered on top. Typically, enterprise development teams could spend weeks or months attempting to deploy containers, with the work of provisioning network IP addresses and firewall rules impeding agility, said Chris Wolf, CTO of global field and industry at VMware. “PKS gives developers full automation to do all of these things very quickly,” Wolf said. “We give you that turnkey Kubernetes deployment, but also give developers the native API and native command line experience” of Kubernetes that they’re looking for, he said. With the constant compatibility guarantee, PKS… [Read full story]

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In partnership with Google Cloud, VMware and Pivotal have launched the Pivotal Container Service (PKS), a new offering that simplifies the process for deploying containers on VMware vSphere. The service, announced Tuesday at the 2017 VMworld conference in Las Vegas, will also offer compatibility for Google Container Engine (GKE), according to a press release. Essentially, PKS is a new Kubernetes distribution built on Kubo, an open source container platform. Kubo, born out of a partnership between Pivotal and Google Cloud Platform, is powered by BOSH and provides high availability, automation, and additional tools. BOSH-powered Kubo can run in the public…... [Read more]

Migration or new implementation initiatives in the cloud can prove to be a daunting task, even for the biggest of enterprises. There are a lot of unknowns on top of many of the same old problems experienced with on-premise data center projects. In a knee-jerk reaction to all this, Google has recently introduced a partnership program with integration and service-oriented consultants for their Google Cloud Platform line of products. If you aren't all that familiar with the Google Cloud Platform as of yet, you might want to read my posts on the Google App Engine, Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud…... [Read more]

Google Cloud customers will soon get more functionality from chat platform Slack, as the two companies announced new features and a deeper integration as part of a strategic partnership revealed Wednesday in a blog post. The new functionality—set to launch in the first half of 2017—will include updates to Google Drive, G Suite management, Slack channels, and a new bot as well. According to the post, "millions of Google Drive files are shared in Slack each month," which prompted the two companies to seek out new ways to improve how they work with one another. One of the biggest announcements…... [Read more]

How you feel about Google's newest information-sharing policy all boils down to how comfortable you are with Google following your every move online.RELATED: Social networking engineers team to make Google searches less "evil"OPINION: Google+ is now officially the creepy guy/gal your friend keeps trying to set you up withThink that's an exaggeration? Consider a user who has a Gmail account, who looks for videos on YouTube and who uses Google as their primary search engine. Under the previous rules, Google would present advertisements for users in their Gmail accounts based on frequently-found keywords found throughout emails. Under the new arrangement,…... [Read more]